Sad Lady Sad
ROYgbiv gallery in Columbus OH, in February 2021.
A prolonged handshake between Brianna Gluszak and Hannah Parrett
The title Sad Lady Sad is not meant for you to assume we are simply sad women, or that all women artists are sad. Femme Triste, a text that translates to Sad Lady in English, is pulled from the painting Le sens propre (The Literal Meaning) by Rene Magritte. Sad Lady Sad is a way for us to poke fun at these tropes in art that frame, quite literally, women as emotional or sad, deemed for one type of lifestyle or career, and create the narrative that abstract art created by women is often emotional at its core.
This collaboration which we often prefer especially now to refer to as a prolonged handshake (one that occurs at a six foot distance) is manifested throughout this installation. Taking and borrowing concepts, visual information, formal elements and colours from each other's individual practices we are mashing our two heads, four hands, and years of conversations together to experience a change in narrative surrounding the work.
ROYgbiv gallery in Columbus OH, in February 2021.
A prolonged handshake between Brianna Gluszak and Hannah Parrett
The title Sad Lady Sad is not meant for you to assume we are simply sad women, or that all women artists are sad. Femme Triste, a text that translates to Sad Lady in English, is pulled from the painting Le sens propre (The Literal Meaning) by Rene Magritte. Sad Lady Sad is a way for us to poke fun at these tropes in art that frame, quite literally, women as emotional or sad, deemed for one type of lifestyle or career, and create the narrative that abstract art created by women is often emotional at its core.
This collaboration which we often prefer especially now to refer to as a prolonged handshake (one that occurs at a six foot distance) is manifested throughout this installation. Taking and borrowing concepts, visual information, formal elements and colours from each other's individual practices we are mashing our two heads, four hands, and years of conversations together to experience a change in narrative surrounding the work.
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